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Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI)

Director: --- Contact: Sarah Koskie, Ph.D.

Summary

Mission Statement: Advance the Use of Active Safety Systems to Reduce Vehicle Crashes and Save Lives. TASI is a university/industry consortium, which is also open to governmental and nongovernmental organizations. Industry participants pay a membership fee and are granted prepublication access to data and reports from TASI sponsored research and development projects. An active safety system is one that attempts to avoid an impending crash either by warning the driver, or by actively taking action(s) to prevent a crash. Active safety systems incorporate sensors, knowledge of vehicle dynamics, decision-making logic to anticipate collisions. The most successful active safety system to date is Electronic Stability Control (ESC). Consumer acceptance of active safety systems continues to be slow, however, because of the difficulty of quantifying cost-benefit analyses. TASIs scope encompasses Research and Development into the causes and mechanisms of collisions, the selection of optimal mechanisms for alerting the driver to take evasive action, the potential of standardization of Human Machine Interface (HMI) to increase consumer acceptance, and methods for component-level, system-level, and human-in-the-loop testing and validation.

School Affiliation

Purdue School of Engineering and Technology

Contact Information

Mailing Address:
Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng., IUPUI
723 W. Michigan St. SL 160
Indianapolis, Indiana 46202

• Email: skoskie@iupui.edu
• Website: http://www.tasi.iupui.edu/
• Phone: (317) 278-9043
• Fax: (317) 274-4493

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